1AUTOUPDATE(1) User Commands AUTOUPDATE(1)
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6 autoupdate - Update a configure.ac to a newer Autoconf
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9 autoupdate [OPTION]... [TEMPLATE-FILE]...
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12 Update each TEMPLATE-FILE if given, or 'configure.ac' if present, or
13 else 'configure.in', to the syntax of the current version of Autoconf.
14 The original files are backed up.
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16 Operation modes:
17 -h, --help
18 print this help, then exit
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20 -V, --version
21 print version number, then exit
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24 verbosely report processing
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26 -d, --debug
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30 consider all files obsolete
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33 -B, --prepend-include=DIR
34 prepend directory DIR to search path
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36 -I, --include=DIR
37 append directory DIR to search path
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40 Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
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43 Report bugs to <bug-autoconf@gnu.org>.
44 GNU Autoconf home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>.
45 General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.
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48 Copyright © 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+/Auto‐
49 conf: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>,
50 <https://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
51 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
52 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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55 autoconf(1), automake(1), autoreconf(1), autoupdate(1), autoheader(1),
56 autoscan(1), config.guess(1), config.sub(1), ifnames(1), libtool(1).
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59 ual. If the info and autoupdate programs are properly installed at
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